Presentations

PDFs of handouts and presentations can be found on ResearchGate.

Invited

2023. ChatGPT, n-grams and the power of subword units. The future of research in morphology,

Fourth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology (DeriMo),

Centre for Advanced Academic Studies, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 5-6. 

2023. A phonology-driven account of Bulgarian verb inflection: Implications for morphological theory. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2023), Athens,  Greece, 29 August - 1 September (Recruited talk presented at the workshop Inflection and derivation in the Slavic verb, held in honor of the late Morris Halle.)

2022. The wheres and whens of affixation: theoretical, computational, and experimental evidence, Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF). Department of Linguistics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, December 2-3.

2022. Natural Language Processing Without Grammar, Cognitive Science Research in Vienna, University of Vienna, Austria, November 22.

2022. Diminutivization, allomorphy and the architecture of grammar: phonology before morphology and syntax. 20th International Morphology Meeting (IMM), Introduction to DMTD3, Budapest, Hungary, September 1-4. 

2021. Current Perspectives and Directions in Recent Research in Slavic Languages. Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University, Sweden, November 17. (online)

2021. Deriving Language Structure with N-Grams: The End-to-end N-Gram Model - EteNGraM. Cognitive Science Lecture Series, University of Vienna, Austria, October 19. 

2021. Diminutivization across languages and frameworks. 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Introduction to DMTD2, online, Aug. 30. (with Boban Arsenijević, Laura Grestenberger and Katharina Korecky-Kröll) 

2021. Workshop discussant, 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, online.

2020. Natural language processing with n-grams: A linguistic solution to the zero-frequency problem. CogSci Lecture Series, University of Vienna, Austria, November 3.

2019. Writing texts with n-grams: The Fibonacci sequence in linguistics. CogSci Lecture Series. University of Vienna, Austria, October 15. 

2018. Young animals and diminutives in Bulgarian and other Slavic languages: A contrastive study with emphasis on derivational paradigms, Bǎlgaristični ezikovedski četenija organized on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 19.

2018. Language Processing and Morphology. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, Austria, October 16.

2017. Word structure in language processing. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, Austria, November 28.

2017. What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental and computational approaches to the relation of meaning and form in morphology, 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, WS Introduction, Zurich, Switzerland, September 10-13. (with Harald Hammarström and Itamar Kastner) 

2017. Workshop discussant, 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich, Switzerland, September 10-13.

2017. Forma di citazione e forma di accesso lessicale. Uno studio sperimentale sui verbi italiani e bulgari. Seminario, Scuola Universitaria Superiore, Pavia, Italy, May 3. (with Pier Marco Bertinetto and Chiara Finocchiaro, presented by PM Bertinetto).

2016. Word-formation and the organization of the mental lexicon. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, Austria, November 29.

2015. Word-formation in the mental lexicon. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, Austria, December 1.

2015. Word-formation, cognition and the organization of the mental lexicon. Presentation of current research at the 4th Annual Lecture in Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, Austria, April 28. (invited poster, with Bartosz Brzoza)   

2014. Cognitive concepts in word-formation. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, Austria, November 25. 

2013. Lexical semantics and cognition. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, Austria, November 12.

2013. Semantically-conditioned two-suffix constructions in English and Bulgarian. 3rd Annual NetWordS (European Network on Word Structure) Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 19-20. (with A. Bagasheva)

2013. Suffix ordering in Italian and Russian: A cognitive approach. 3rd Annual NetWordS (European Network on Word Structure) Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 19-20. (reporting joint work with L. Talamo)

2013. (De)composing the Slavic word: A domain-specific approach to affix order. CogSci-Talk, University of Vienna, June 19.

2013. A cognitive approach to suffix ordering: Two-suffix constructions in English and Slavic. Seminar, Laboratorio di Linguistica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, May 17.

2013. Word-formation in English and Slavic: A typological view. Seminar, Department of British and American Studies, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, March 14.

2013. Word-formation and cognition: The role of syntax and semantics. Seminar, Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 13 March.

2012. Word-formation and cognition. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, Austria, November 20.

2011. Suffix combinations in English and Bulgarian, with some comparisons to Russian and Polish. Seminar, Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, December 15. 

2010. Invited chair of the panel ‘Rules of Language’. KogWis 2010 – The 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany, October 3-6.

2009. Restrictions on recursive diminutivization in Slavic. Workshop on recursiveness in word-formation. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Lisbon, Portugal, September 9-12. 

2009. Affix order in the Slavic word: parsability, closing suffixes and related issues. Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA, February 4.

2007. Zatvarjašti sufiksi v bălgarskija ezik (Closing suffixes in Bulgarian). Lingvističen seminar na Sofijskija universitet / Linguistic Seminar of the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, November 27.

2005. Wie kompliziert ist die bulgarische Verbalflexion? Guest lecture. Department of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, December 12.

2004. Bulgarian verbs as a dynamic system. Department of Linguistic Cultural and Translation Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, July 27.

2004. Subtrakcijata kato vid morphologična texnika / The morphological technique of subtraction. Lingvističen seminar na Sofijskija  universitet / Linguistic Seminar of the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, May 20. 

2002. Conversion versus modification and subtraction. Seminar on Conversion / Zero-Derivation, 10th International Morphology Meeting. Szentendre, Hungary, May 12. (with Wolfgang U. Dressler)

Based on submitted abstracts

R indicates a refereed contribution 

2024R. Linguistic theory, psycholinguistics and large language models, 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas  

             Linguistica Europaea, Helsinki, Finland, 21-24 August. Abstract here.

2023R. Modeling language data and evaluating linguistic analyses with mathematical methods: Implications for 

  construction grammar. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC16), Düsseldorf, 

  Germany, August 7-11. 

2021R. (De)composing Slavic diminutive nouns: Suffix homophony and repetition. 16th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, online, September 3-5. (with Dmitri Sitchinava)

2021R. Slavic diminutive morphology: An interplay of scope, templates and paradigms. 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, online, August 30. (with Dmitri Sitchinava)

2019R. Derivational paradigms: Rules, patterns or neural networks? 14th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Potsdam, Germany, September 11-13. (with Dmitri Sitchinava and Maria Shvedova)     

2019R. The concept of young animal (Proto-Slavic *nt-stems) and diminutivization in modern Slavic languages. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig, Germany, August 21-24. (with Dmitri Sitchinava and Maria Shvedova)

2018R. On the origin of diminutives: Inflectional diminutives, diminutives proper, double and multiple diminutives in Slavic languages, Word-Formation Theories III / Typology and Universals in Word-Formation IV, Košice, Slovakia, June 27-30. (with Renáta Gregová)

2017R. Second-grade diminutives in Czech and Slovak: A contrastive study with data from corpora. 12th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 21-24. (with Dušan Ptáček and Renáta Gregová) 

2017R. Suffix combinations in Slovene: A psycholinguistic study, 12th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 21-24. (with Špela Medvešek)

2016R. Morphological processing and L2 acquisition. 42nd Austrian Linguistics Meeting / 42. Österreichische Linguistiktagung. Graz, November 19. 

2016R. Word semantics in terms of suffix combinability: L2 acquisition and a specialized electronic corpus. 12th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 12) conference, Giessen, Germany, July 20-23. (with Bartosz Brzoza)

2015R. Suffix combinations in the mental lexicon. 45th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Poznań, Poland, September 17-19. (with Bartosz Brzoza)   

2015R. Word formation in terms of two-suffix combinations: Evidence from Polish. 45th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Poznań, Poland, September 17-19. (with Paula Orzechowska and Bartosz Brzoza)     

2015R. Suffix combinability and the organization of the mental lexicon. 10th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM), Haifa, Israel, September 7-10. (with Bartosz Brzoza)  

2015R. Suffix combinability in Polish: a psycholinguistic study. 10th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS), Heidelberg, Germany, September 4-6. (with Bartosz Brzoza) 

2015R. The combinability of derivational suffixes in the mental lexicon: A psycholinguistic study. 2015 Conference of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB). York St John University, UK, April 17-19. (with Bartosz Brzoza) 

2014R. E-dictionaries: the user's perspective. 41. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Vienna, December 6-8. 

2012R. Suffix ordering in English and Slavic: Different or the same? 39th Österreichische Linguistiktagung. Innsbruck, Austria, October 26-28.

2012R. Word-formation in English and Slavic: A contribution to the typology of suffix order. Second International Conference on the Typology and Universals in Word-Formation. Košice, Slovakia, August 26-28.

2011R. Suffix ordering in Bulgarian, Russian and Polish double diminutives. 6th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS). Aix-en-Provence, France, September 1-3.

2011.  Advances in affix order research. 3rd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order. Vienna, Austria, January 15-16.

2010R. Suffix order and the structure of the Slavic word. The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, USA, October 29-31. 

2010R. Contrastive morphology and typology: Towards a semantic typology of closing suffixation. 6th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 30 – October 2. 

2010R. Suffix combinations in derivation: A cognitive approach. KogWis 2010 – The 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany, October 3-6.

2009. Linguistische Probleme bei der Vorbereitung einer Datenbank von russischen Suffixen und deren Kombinationen. 37. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Salzburg, Austria, December 5-7. (with Philipp Egginger)

2009. Diminutivierung im Bulgarischen, Russischen und Polnischen: Eine kontrastive Analyse. 37. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Salzburg, Austria, December 5-7 (with Philipp Egginger & Kimberley Winternitz)

2009. A cognitive approach to SUFF1-SUFF2 combinations. 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order, Vienna, Austria, June 5-6.

2009. Affix Order in Slavic and Languages with Similar Morphology. 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order, Vienna, Austria, June 5-6.

2009R. Closing suffixes in Bulgarian, Russian and German: the role of semantics. Bulgarian Language and Literature in Slavic and Non-Slavic Contexts, Szeged, Hungary, May 28-29.

2009R. Diminutivization and Closing Suffixation. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, USA, January 8-11.

2008R. Closing Suffixes and the Structure of the Slavic Word: Movierung. 14th International Congress of Slavists, Ohrid, Macedonia, September 10-16. 

2008R. Universal and language-specific properties of closing suffixation: Types of closing suffixes. Perspectives on Slavistics 3 (PoS-3), Hamburg, Germany, August 28-31. 

2008. Bulgarisch ist anders: Das Bulgarische innerhalb der slawischen Familie und im Vergleich mit dem Deutschen. 10 Jahre Campus - Wissenschaftssommer am Campus 2008. Thementag Slawischer Raum, Campus AAKH, University of Vienna, Austria, August 3. 

2008R. Closing suffixes in Bulgarian and German. BASEES 2008 Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, May 29 - 31.  

2008. The Slavic Word: Parsability and Closing Suffixes. Workshop on Affix Ordering / 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria, February 3-6.     

2007R. On the Nature of Derivational Morphology: Suffix Homophony and Closing Suffixation. Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) 2007 Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, October 12-14.

2007R. On the role of phonology and semantics in closing suffixation: With evidence from Bulgarian and Russian. Second Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, ZAS, Berlin, Germany, August 22-26.

2007R. On Some Recent Changes in Bulgarian Conjugation. International Conference“Bulgarian Language and Literature at the Crossroads of Cultures”, Szeged, Hungary, May 21-22.

2006R. Aspekt im Bulgarischen: paarig oder dreigliedrig? 34. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Klagenfurt, Austria, December 8-10. 

2006R. Modelling Bulgarian Verb Inflection. 5th Conference “Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 18-20. (poster)

2006R. Paradigm Linkage and Bulgarian Verb Inflection. Inaugural Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, September 8-10.

2006R. What’s an inflectional paradigm? (Periphrastic Verb Paradigms in Bulgarian).  39th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea “Relativism and Universalism in Linguistics”, Bremen, Germany, Aug. 30 – Sept. 2. 

2005. Zwischen Morphologie und Syntax: Periphrastische Verbalformen im Bulgarischen. 33. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Graz, Austria, October 28-31. 

2005R. Towards a theory of subtraction. 38th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea “Formal, Functional and Typological Perspectives on Discourse and Grammar”, Valencia, Spain, September 7-10. 

2004. Eine Beschreibung der bulgarischen Verbalflexion nach dem Prinzip der Default-Vererbung. 32. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Salzburg, Austria, November 12-14. 

2004R. Towards a theory of conversion in Slavic languages: evidence from Bulgarian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. 1st Perspectives on Slavistics Conference, Leuven, Belgium, September 17-19. 

2004R. Derivation versus inflection in three inflecting languages. 11th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria, February 14-17. 

2003. Formale versus semantische Kriterien für die Klassenetablierung in der Flexion. 31. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Vienna, December 6-8.